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Breadfan
10-24-01, 04:14 PM
Have a computer here that seems to get a Run32.dll invalid page fault on startup. Its on this guys computer that has like all these freeware programs and screensavers, the "weatherbug" program, "yahoo tickter" yada yada yada running on it.

BTW, its a Pentium II 266mhz with 96mb RAM yet he insists on having all this junk running...suffice to say a reboot takes FOREVER.

I should be more of a pain at work, and demand that he take this stuff of his computer, but in reality, if it works, I dont care cuase I don't have to deal with it. Right now I'm not gonna bother with a format/reinstall...

Anyway, I got everything working, but the run32.dll error still comes up. There is a reference in the details to another .dll, but I can't remmeber which one and I doubt I could find where its attached.

I think you'll agree taht this would be wonderful:

Imagine a program that could trace the fault at the dll and tell you exactly what program caused the problem...or driver. That way you'd know exactly whats causing the fault so you could remove some funky freeware program or reinstall/update a bad driver.

I'm not a programmer, but it doesn't sound too tough...one would expect that the error that causes the fault could just be traced back to the program or "module" that it originated from. Then it could atleast tell you more about whats cuasing it....I really don't see much of a point in seeing the memory hex addresses which is what MS give ya...

I'd love to see that...but maybe it exists. I've never seen anything like that, but I think it'd be a pretty hot diagnostic too. Did I explain it correctly? Does something like that exist? If not, is it really tough to do and is that why we don't see something like that?

Mike

TouchedByMagic
10-24-01, 04:22 PM
Oh plz plz plz some1 come along and say this exsists! I could do with one now! As for your problem, have you tried running sfc from the start > run menu? just pop the windows disk in first and it'll check to see which files are corrupt. It should fix the problem. But beware! Any windows download updates will most proberly be lost.

Ebola
10-24-01, 05:13 PM
how about something that eliminates the blue screen of hardware conflicts when you overclock too far in win2k.

just makes me want to kill when i can boot up at 1333 and get though the two initial windows loading screens only to get BAM a blue screen of death.

JigPu
10-24-01, 05:23 PM
If only it did exist........

I'd say get his install disk and recopy the run32.dll onto his HD. Had a problem with msg32.dll a while back, and re-installing it fixed it right up!

JigPu